TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 204341 [ 2024TNSTR.580....1H ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-03-02 23:47:02
Date made public:
Sender: DESIRT_Bot
Reporting Group: DESIRT     Discovery Data Source: DESIRT

Lei Hu (Carnegie Mellon U.), Brendan O'Connor (Carnegie Mellon U.), Antonella Palmese (Carnegie Mellon U.), Yuhan Chen (UC Berkeley), Aidan Catalano (Carnegie Mellon U.), Xingzhuo Chen (Texas A&M U.), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Tomás Cabrera (Carnegie Mellon U.), Keerthi Kunnumkai (Carnegie Mellon U.), Konstantin Malanchev (Carnegie Mellon U.), Veronica Diaz (Carnegie Mellon U.) on behalf of DESIRT Collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2023adld
Discoverer internal name: C202312290339555m150257
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:39:55.507 (54.981280170267) DEC = -15:02:57.12 (-15.049198815304)
Discovery date: 2023-12-29 04:08:04.992 (JD=2460307.6722846)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-12-29 04:08:04.992
Flux: 22.1557 ABMag
Filter: r-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: DECam Legacy Survey

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2023adld